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The beginning OF disease is slight debility
or disorder OF some OF the vital organs. the
stomach. the liver or the bowels usually.
There are dyspeptic symptoms, the liver Is
troublesome, the skin grows tawney aud un-
healthy looking, there are pains in the right
side or through the right shoulder blade. The
climax is often an utter prostration OF the
physical energies, perhaps fatal issue. But
If the difficulty il met In time with Hostetters
Stomach Bitters, which Is always effective az a
remedy, and IL should be resorted 10 at an early
stage. there will be no reason TO apprehend
those Injurious subsequent effects upon the
system often entailed by entirely cured dis.
e0ses. Far better Is It., also. TO employ this
safe remedial agent in fever and agne, and
other potent drugs which, oven when they do
prove effsctual for time, ruin the stomach
and impair the general health.
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Of the cruelty, the BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
tyranny, the vices of the Eighteenth century,
our American reformers founded republic
in which liberation, humanity, education and
virtue were to be the pillars Of the rising
state. Well might John Adams break into
kind of lyric rapture when he surveyed the
work he had just accomplished. In a letter
to his wife he said:
"'The I'd day of July. 1776, will be the
most memorable epocha in the his
tory of America am apt to believe
it win be celebrated by succeeding gen.
erations as the great anniversary festival It
ought to be commemorated as the day of de-
liverance by solemn acts Of devotion to God
Almighty. 1t ought to be solemized with
pomp and pa, ade, with shows, games, sport,
balls. bonfires Nominations. from one end of
this continent to the other, from ttds time
forward forever. You will think me trans
ported with enthusiasm, but / am not. am
well aware of the toll and blood and treasure
it will cost US to maintain this Declaration
and defend these states. Yet through all the
gloom l can see the rays of ravishing light
and glory. Yesterday the greatest question
was decided which ever was debated in
America, and greater, perhaps, never was
nor will be decided among men. A resolution
was passed without one dissenting colony
that these United States are, and of q right
ought to be, free and independent states"
aOf the proceedings Of congress upon this
eventful day no record has been preserved.
Not a line of its eloquence is left to US We
are better acquainted with the speeches de-
livered In the Roman senate and the Roman
forum, with the debates Of the English par
lament in 164l, with the harangueso OF French
Jacobins or English reformers, than with the
grand discussion o. the principles Of liberty
and progress which made us a free people.
aWe only know that John Adams spoke
with such power that, in the words Of Jeffer-
son, he moved the members from their seats
1t was the voice Of the new world remon-
strating against the decadence of the old.
More than 100 years Of progress have
raised 100 600 900 of men to new sense of
freedom America is republic, Europe has
pressed on toward liberty, the world is nearly
free The Fourth OF July has become the an
nlyersary most noted in the annals OF man
kind. the birthday of human freedom, the
epoch OF unbounded hopen
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1t is evident that the Democrats
don't like the Senatorial situation in
this State. They are not so dead
sure that Judge Faulkner will get a
seat in the Senate, as they
pretend on the surface. Gov. Will.
son has refused to give Mr.. Faulkner
q certificate of election. He simply
gave Judge Faulkner a certified tran
script OF the proceedings Of the call.
ed session of the Legislature concern.
ing the election of senator.
The n. Y. Herald prints an inter.
view with Senator KeDna, in which
it is stated that at
an informal conference ofDemocratic
Senators held here to day, it was
agreed that efforts should at once be
made to convince the Governor OF
West Virginia that if he adheres to
this intention he will unnecessarily
imperil that States representation in
the Senate. The history of Senate
election cases shows that only the
certificate of the Governor when the
Legislature has fulfilled its duty can
be accepted by the Senate. For the
Governor to set up any peculiar
State right views would be, to say
the least, indiscreet, on the verge Of
a Presidential election. Ii Mr.. Lu-
cas- should claim the seat with his
certificate and Mr.. Faulkner should
be denied the certificate, the Senate
would undoubtedly be compelled to
declare vacancy, which could not be
filed until the Legislature again
metz
The Grafton Standard is ont in q
savage article, in which it declares
that if Judge Faulkner fails to get
the seat through the Governors re.
fusal to issue him a certificate, the
"kickersn must be read out OF the
party.
In the last issue of the Richie
Gazette, there is an editorial to the
effect that the Camdenites are not
anxious for the seating of Faulkner,
and that Mr.. Camden may be a can
didate for the Senate again-PTes-
ton Journal.
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EXECUTION or WOMEN.
Methods of Capital Punishment in Olden
Times-various Laws.

Times-various Laws.
In the early days of England men were
too humane to execute women, but they
drowned them. During the reign of
Henry III, however, a woman was
hanged, but as she did not die after being
on the gibbet for a day, they cut her
down and she was granted pardon.
Adultcrous women and sorceresses were
drowned or smothered in mud. Stones
were fastened to their necks to prevent
their swimming, or they were sewed up
in sacks. Sometimes they were drowned
in company with cat, dog and a
snake. The Anglo-Saxons drowned wo-
men guilty of theft. The criminal was
thrown from the cliff or submerged. In
the Tenth century a woman was drowned
at London bridge. Women were pun
ished by drowning in Scotland. In 1899
Grissen Mathon was condemned by the
high court of Edinburgh "to be taken to
the north lock and there drowned till she
be dead"
A memorable instance of drowning oc-
Cured at Bavaria, Oct. IA, 1896. Agnes
Bernaurian, wife of Duke Albert the
Pious, was dropped off the bridge of the
city Of Strasburg into the Danube, by
order of her father. She appears not
to have been put into a sack, and her
limbs not to have been securely bound,
for she rose to the surface of the water
and swan to the shore crying "help, "
"help," but the executioner put long
pole into her hair and kept her down.
According to the Danish laws, women
were buried alive for theft, method of
punishment not unknown in France. In
1881 Marote Duplas was scourged and
subjected to this cruel death, at Abbeville,
and in 1460 woman named Perotte
Mauger, notorious thief and receiver of
stolen goods was, by order of the provost
of Paris, buried alive in front of the glib
bet in that city. In ancient German his
tory we read of female criminals being
impaled in the mud and, in comparatively
recent years, the remains of several bodies
have been found to prove the truth of
this assertion. In early England cook
once poisoned fourteen persons. The au-
thorities did not believe they had pun
ishment sufficiently severe for her case,
so law was passed making her crime
punishable by being boiled to DEATH
The Earth
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Samuel Adams, the chief promoter
But OF all of the advocates Of independence,
Samuel Adams was. perhaps, the most power
full The most ardent of republicans was he.
He was poor, and knew many privations. and
yet condemned money. Honors, emoluments,
and even power he never sought. But to the
cause of Independence he gave his time and
ability. Long before his contemporaries
spoke of liberty he saw the star of freedom
chat was destined 10 shine over America
Robert Treat Paine and Elbridge Gerry
were there; Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard
Henry Lees younger brother, the gay and
good humored, was there; Benjamin Harrison,
father of future president, was there, chair
man of the committee of the whole, which
has just reported on the Declaration. The
mild and philanthropic Carter Braxton
was there in place. Of the late lamented
Peyton Randolph the first president of the
continental congress, who had died six
or seven months before. And there, too, was
the noble hearted Thomas Nelson, of Vir-
ginia. He was the mover of these instruc-
tions In the convention of Virginia, passed en-
May Ia, under which Richard Henry Lee Of
fered the original resolution of independence,
ON June 7. And there could be seen the sturdy
front of Roger Sherman, native of Massa-
chusetts, but then delegate from Connect.
cut, that old Puritan, as honest as an angel,
and as firm in the cause of American indie
pendence as Mount Atlas" said John Adams
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FOURTH OF JULY. 1776.

III we could look back to the I'd Of July,
1776, sweeping lie the years that lie be-
tween, and see III the sultry streets of Phila-
delphia the procession of patriots who founded
our republic moving thoughtfully toward the
old State house, we would see band of men
the equal in intellect and appearance of any
in the worlds MISREPRESENTATION of whom
we have right to be proud. One was Frank
lin, "the venerable father of science in the
new world" simple, with excessive cultiva-
ton, philosophic and modest, che looked with
composure, at least without regret, upon the
act of independence"
And there was Thomas jefferson, the thin,
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Fourth Of July was generally OBJ
served throughout the country, but
with less noise in the principal cities,
excepting, perhaps, Philadelphia,
where the boys held high reyel with
q recrackers.
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age met together to
found a republic
and been deceiyedl
When Europe was
q savage wilder
ness, except for
q thin line Of settle
ments around the
Mediterranean sea,
when all England
and France, Ger
many and Spain
were the haunts Of
savage tribes, a
fair, adventurous,
brilliant race had
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the PRONUNCIATION of this act of offense and
defiance to all loyal authority. But there
was no individual responsibility for that act,
save in the signature of John Hancock, presi-
dent, and Charles Thomson, secretary Not
until Aug. was the young Boston merchant
relieved from the perilous, the appalling
grandeur Of standing sole sponsor for the
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Sixty skeletons Of men, supposed
to have been murdered for robbery,
were found in an old cave on the
Kentucky Stock road, near Nash
vile, Tenn.
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6 b s e n t, James
Otis, to W HON
might well be ap-
piled the name of
the creator of the
theory Of independ-
ence. He was at
home a hopeless
maniac, made so
by a blow from a
Tory oppon e II t.
His brilliant mind
clouded, he scarcely
saw the revolution
of which no had
been with Lee and
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And who can over
look the stalwart
figure Of Samuel
Chase, OF Mary
landa His gentle
colleague, Charles
Carroll, was alb
sent, but signed
the declaration, on
August 2. Cesar
Rodney was there,
and Arthur Mid
dleton, Of South
Carolina, and the
eloquent Edward
Rutledge.
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In their journals.
to be proclaimed in
their streets, to be
published from
their pulpits, to be
read at the head of
their armies, to be
incorporated for
ever into their his
tory. The British
forces, driven away
from Boston, were
then landing on
Staten Island.
Thav xraro mat h-
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And Richard Stockton, Of New Jersey,
who had doubted the propriety of the
measure, and had been won over by "the ir-
resistible and conclusive arguments of John
Adams And the president of the congress,
the glorious John Hancock See him in his
chair, the same chair in which Washington
was to sit eleven years later as president of
the convention which framed the constitution
OF the United States. He was not yet 40
years of age, had princely fortune ut stake
and price upon his head. There he sat in
the calm dignity which no vicissitude of life
was ever able to ruff1e.
"Behold himl He has risen for a moment.
He has put the question. The Declaration is
adopted 1t is already late in the evening,
and all formal PRONUNCIATION of the days
doings must be postponed. After grace of
three days the air will be vibrating with the
joyous tones of the old bell in the cupola over
bis head proclaiming liberty to all mankind
and with the responding acclamations of as
sembled multitudes. Meantime, for him,
however, a simple but solemn duty remains
to be discharged. The paper is before
him. He dips his pen and, with an UNI
trembling hand, proceeds to execute sigma
ture, which. as Webster said, has made
his name as imperishable 'as if it were
written between Orion and the Pleiades.'
"Under that signature, with only the at
testation of q secretary, the Declaration goes
forth to the American people, to be printed
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1hoAAS 'EFFEEsoS. Here he abhorred
the selfshness of caste, and in Europe he saw
only the sorrows and degradation of the
many under the heel of the favored and idle
few. In France, which to some of his eminent
countrymen, even Franklin and John Adams,
seemed the land of pleasure, he saw only the
helpless people under the hand of tyranny.
Ii was then that he wrote to q friend in
America, "Above all things educate the
people" He saw clearly that no free institu-
tions could exist without knowledge; that the
schoolmaster must rule in his new nation-or
it must perish. Like Franklin, Jefferson was
no speaker. He sat silent in the sessions of
congress. On that memorable I'd of July he
took no part in the debate, but he wrote
with wonderful fire and grace, and to his
burning pen was committed the task of pre-
pairing that immortal document, the Declare
ton Of Independence, which enforced for all
ages the doctrine of universal freedom.
Another equally ardent republican from
Virginia, Richard Henry Lee, was absent
from the congress. Born to wealth and ease,
he longed for a republic in which were no
cruel distinctions separating man from man.
But Patrick Henry was there.
And there, too, was John Adams, of Massa
chusetts, he who In early life had pinned for
an ideal elevation above his fellows. He had
spent twenty years in Philadelphia, Paris,
London, and the Hague, and was yet unsatis
fed. He was now 40 years old, and as a
speaker he helped forward the new republic.
A greater orator from Massachusetts, was
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dark, gray eyed
Virginian, still
young at 80. a
Democrat of til 9
severest cultur e,
yet the naost radical
of republicans, a
friend Of the people,
who was yet to give
fifty years more Of
the work Of b is
swift, incisive intel
lect to his country.
FL UNI an equality
was the theory that
engrossed b i'm.
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AN OPEN LETTER.
HAGERsTowN, June Is, 1887.
MESSRS. EDITORS OF THE HERALD,
MARTINSBURG, w. VA.

GENTLEMEN: We want to thank you
for publishing a paper, through the
persons with information of profit and
value to them, as we'll as of importance
to ourselves we want to say to the
readers of your paper that we would as
soon stop bookkeeping as to stop keep
ing our name and business constantly
before their eyes.
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IF WE HAVEN T

what the people want there can be no
business between us. If we have what
the people want, at half the price they
pay for it elsewhere, and the people
don t know it, it is all the same. there is
no business between US. That's the
reason why we are constantly in the
newspapers making every effort,
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Try THE HERALD for year.
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TO PUMP INTO

the readers of your paper the fact that
we have articles they want, and will sell
them for as little money, and nine times
out of ten, for less money than they pay
elsewhere, not excepting the big stores
in the big cities. that we aim to under
sell
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among Us the su-
prerne pest Of CIV
ilization, had left
here the canker
that had corroded
t b 9 freedom Of
Greece and Rome,
and had seemed to
make impossible in
the new world any
advance hey i'd
the impassive hui
manity of the past.
Yet, in the midst
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A SECRET

we tell them to your readers:
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end. Let the people know it.
3rd. Make the prices to please the peo-
pie.
4th. Give the people all the attention,
accommodations, conveniences and com.
forts that are known to modern store
keeping.
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EVERYTHING.

That word means something-big,
that's it; applied to our business, it
means that we keep everything males
and females wear from birth to death,
either in ready-made garments, or ma
terials out of which to make them, lex
cept ladies' hats and bonnets.)
Our store-room is 220 feet long and SO
feet wide. 1t is chuck full of goods.
There are six departments of articles for
female wear and six departments of
articles for male wear, with thousands
of other necessary acticles for the parlor,
sitting-room dining-room and general
purposes.
In CONCLUSION.
We thank those of your readers who
have visited our stores, and invite one
and all to come whenever convenient, if
for no other purpose than to see the
styles and prices.
Samples will be sent by mail to those
who write for them. Yours truly,
UPDEGRAFFS,
Hagerstown, Md.
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shores of the Egean, and meditated from
the acropolis on the rights OF man. The
Greeks invented the principles Of the COM
monwealth. The half inspired intellect of
Greece founded series of republics that
faded one by one before the influence Of caste
and slavery. A Latin race took up the con-
ception. The plebeians of Rome discussed
beneath their seven hills the rights Of man,
the theory of universal suffrage, the equali-
cation of property and the principles of the
public veal. But slavery disappointed all
their hopes Freemen disappeared. Society
knew but two classes the enslaying and the
enslaved.
Emigration cultivated all western Eu-
rope; but the theory Of republic vanished in
a universal tyranny. The republics Of the
middle ages-rude, coarse, severe, yet pro-
gressive-fell into the hands Of tyrants. The
reformation came and republics sprang up
with free thought. Yet in the Eighteenth
century every one had persisted except Swift
zerland, and as Samuel and John Adams, Jay
and Lee surveyed the dim stream Of history,
they might well tremble to find its shores
strewn chiefly with the wrecks Of freedom,
and monarchies and despotisms alone -four
ishing where once had stood the dawning
fabrics Of human equality.
more imam lUO years OF ratlonaI progress
have familiarized the mind to the widest
strides of liberty. The great foundations Of
the republic-toleration equality, educa-
tion-seem no longer new. But when the
patriots of 1776, in the midst of the bar
barous Eighteenth century, proposed them to
the world as the basis of legislation, the world
scoffed at them as il they were mad It is
quite impossible, indeed, for any one to con-
ceive without intense study how far man has
advanced in the last 100 years; how miserable
was his condition in all countries in 1776. One
can scarcely realize how miserable was the
human race amidst the barbarities of kings
and mobiles 100 years ago; what tears were
shed; what horrors endured by those who
have since become the sovereign people.
The chief trait of the Eighteenth century
was its intense inhumanity. No one cared
for the sufferings of others, and no one, ex-
cept a few philosophers and few Americans,
had discovered that the ma ority of men were
not born to suffer forever The great seig-
neurs of France beat, robbed and murdered
their peasants with no sentiment even Of
shame; the English lords, bishops and princes
defended their cruel laws. while all the ocean
was covered with slave ships, and the horrible
wealth OF every civilized nation was won
from the woes Of the helpless Africans. Eu-
ropean cruelty and avarice had forced slavery
unon tho fresh fields of Amarica had MIA nfad
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THIRTY-FIvR YEARS EXPERIENCE

in bookkeeping and manufacturing, sue
cessfully increasing each and every
year of that period, has settled the ques-
ton that the four leading features with
which we started out and have steadily
held fast to, are the main points to which
we owe our success. AS we have never
kept them
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"Under that signature, with only the at
testation Of secretary, the Declaration goes
forth to the American people, to be printed